United Air has spent millions fighting for the right to CHARGE customers for the RESTROOM,
among other things.
And they paid a fine in 2016 for how they treated passengers with wheelchairs.
http://www.beloitdailynews.com/article/20170412/AP/304129712
April 12, 2017 - United Airlines, the Chicago-based giant at the center of a public relations storm for its forcible removal of a passenger from a weekend flight, has spent more than $41 million during the past decade to lobby the federal government, often battling consumer-friendly causes.
A MapLight/International Business Times review of records kept by the Center for Responsive Politics found that during the last two-year session of Congress, the airline spent $7.26 million to fight legislation that included measures to create minimum airline seat sizes; require airlines to allow families to sit together on flights; and prohibit airlines from charging customers to use an airplane bathroom.
United backed up those lobbying expenditures with millions of dollars of campaign contributions to federal lawmakers and political committees -- and it is a member of a lobbying group seeking to delay proposed rules requiring airlines to more transparently disclose their fees.
United's efforts to thwart consumer-focused legislation could be in the spotlight thanks to the furor over a video showing the airline removing an Asian-American senior citizen from one of its flights. The passenger, a Kentucky physician, was bloodied, knocked semi-conscious and dragged from the airplane. Although the airline has apologized for the use of force, it initially described the mayhem as "re-accommodating" the customer, and its chief executive claimed that United was legally within its rights to eject already-boarded passengers to make room for four airline employees. Previously, the company assured federal regulators that ticketed passengers are guaranteed seats.
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In 2014, United argued against proposed rules to mandate better disclosure of fees charged to airline consumers. In its federal filings against the regulations, the company told regulators that "every ticket, of course, guarantees a passenger a seat on the plane" -- a statement that has been called into question by this week's video of the passenger being removed from United's plane.
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this is right down the republican's "family values" alley.
pick up the dirty Depends?????? 
